Revealing Cinemas.

 

I like to look behind of process, which final result comes in films for theaters, video on demand and still DVD. I want to know how they were made and listen stories from people who were involved. I’ve seen many documentaries for years and I’ll give a view on them.

Side by Side (2012).

Multiple reasoning interviews with known filmmakers with whom was talking Keanu Reeves, which turns to common topic about transition from film stock camera to digital technologies.

Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010).

Magnificent Mark Hartley’s documentary about filming in politically unquiet Philippines in seventies and eighties. Mostly it devoted to movies of producer Roger Corman, who chose this country for low-budget availability. He and many other wonderful people will tell hyping and unusual stories on specifics of moviemaking in this country and that decades, which will conclude on Apocalypses Now filming.

This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006).

Investigation documentary about film rate commission (MPAA – Motion Picture Association of America.) where will find out a truth on following to requirements of their members and brilliant interviews on flicks, which deserve controversy on gotten ratings.

Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011).

About Roger Corman who discovered many significant flickmakers in future and knew methods how to sell film before of big studios. He was releasing movies of directors as Federico Fellini in the American cinema, which he likes, but still prefers for own profit making of exploitations. Documentary about person, who did gigantic achievement in cinema.

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled ‘70s (2012).

Italian filmmakers were imitating to American cinema and they advanced the United States in westerns when started to make them in sixties. The end of that decade and then whole seventies flicks as Dirty Harry films, French Connection 1-2, Death Wish and The Godfather 1-2 and many others were a point for creation of subgenre poliziotteschi (policemen), which also influenced then situation, which calls The Years of Lead now when not only mafia, but far-radical groups were terrorizing country. Documentary about limited and illegal filming without insurance and stuntmen personnel as in the United States to where was inviting usually fallen in own homeland actors, who with delight recalls time in Italy.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003).

Film devoted to young then directors, who made memorable films from releasing of Bonnie and Clyde (1967) to which I have disdain for glorifying of gangsters, who deserved that execution, in the end of sixties years and through all seventies. Not on everything was told, not all details were mentioned and New Hollywood had many other interesting filmmakers and I’m sure in some of them that they would give interviews than called directors, who declined. I didn’t understand why Star Wars with many other films related to B-flicks. Not uncompleted in researching, but I liked this documentary.

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008).

I’ve knew so many films, which never heard before in this documentary about Australian cinema. Thankfully, to director Mark Hartley, I’ve discovered masterpiece Wake in Fright (1971), which is a tremendous film about Australian outskirts with personal amazing story of lost film in decades and how exemplar was found and was going on utilization. Ozploitation documentary gives pleasure in tales of participants about filming processes, which as in Italy, was making without insurance (often it was absolutely realistic.) and was hiring American actors, who was getting opportunity to keep career. Great gratitude to Mark Hartley for all his documentaries, who took excellent objective interviews from different point of views and gave unique working materials. I was enriching in stories on crazy filming processes.

BaadAsssss Cinema (2002).

50-minutes of length of nice documentary about Blaxploitation films in interviews of it’s pivotal people who certainly will tell excellent stories, but these movies aren’t higher of mediocrity in art quality. Breakthrough films about Negroes where made before that’s sub-genre. In the Heat of the Night (1967) where Virgil Tibbs in performance of Sidney Poitier shows that a man with a black skin can be specialist in investigation and better of these village cops. The Split (1968) in this adaptation of novel of Parker series changed race of a titular hero was brilliant solution of producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff. I like how it used in scene when performing main character Jim Brown and Jack Klugman’s personage has meeting with a person, who was thinks that Parker (called McClain in this film.) is Klugman.

American Grindhouse (2010).

Interesting time I’ve spent in watching of devotion to exploitation cinema, which needed enhancing in researching and not all subgenres were discussed. This documentary admits my point of view that difference just in budgets between exploitation studios and current blockbusters by major companies.

Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006).

Famous slasher series has personal documentaries as His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th (2009) and Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006), but they got as meeting of old good friends than documentary about subject. Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006) is precisely in telling on whole genre and personal stories which will about ring by Betsy Palmer and Tom Savini says reason to do make-up where can get sure again that CGI willn’t substitute handmade by master.

The Celluloid Closet (1995).

Imaging of homosexuality in cinema through films of their actors, scriptwriters, directors and people belonging to this orientation in whose relation to films and time can see vulnerability and exaggeration.

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001).

Origin of exploitation films from fifties to how they became popular in drive-in theaters and continue to be by interviews of their participants where one of these legends is Roger Corman.

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020).

Discussing of nudity on screen from first films and how it was changed to modern days. Not enough of people, who participated in mentioned flicks, but without them – it’s a fine research of the topic.

Seduced and Abandoned (2013).

A grandiose revelation of Hollywood through experiment to find an investor or producer on Cannes Festival who will ready to finance an uncommercial story with non-bankable performers by director James Toback and actor Alec Baldwin. Marvelous of documentary that everybody, who have got an offer, didn’t know that their words on record.

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014).

That’s world would be a boring place without companies as Cannon Films. Captivating documentary about relative producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who with unusual view on making films, which could be demonstrated in released for theaters. They were giving freedom for directors, who can get a large budget, which could became an overuse or art opportunity could be an unbelievable film as Runaway Train (1985). Franco Zeffirelli expressed in documentary gratitude to Golan and Globus for make his Otello (1986), which he calls the top of own projects. Sylvester Stallone said that Menahem Golan, who was directing Over the Top (1987), allowed to film one scene what no one would do this. Cannon Films were making great action movies with Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson and introduced Jean-Claude Van Damme. Mark Hartley did once again monumental efforts in creation of documentary.

I still not find two more tempting in topics documentaries. Reel Injun (2009) about imagining of Native Americans in the United States cinema, which performing white actors was showing them as villains. I never rely on film’s description, but historical inaccuracy of They Died with Their Boots On (1941) says in a title. Rated ‘R’: Republicans in Hollywood (2004) is one more enticing topic, which became higher in nowadays actuality in far-left Hollywood where to be Republican relates to hereticism.